This year, the Federation celebrated 17 individuals and companies from across the state who are conserving our wildlife and wild places.
2023 Conservation Achievement Award Winners
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Streams, Rivers, & Wetlands
Water Planning Requires a Regional Approach
Imagine: it’s early fall. The sun is shining. You’re driving west from Middle Tennessee. As you get beyond the cities, you look out the window at the landscape. Trees, a mix of greens and yellows and oranges, are all around. The trees begin to give way to openings with towering stalks of corn and vast fields of soybeans. The land is at its most fruitful—and it brings you a sense of peace.
Federation CEO Appointed to Tennessee H2O Steering Committee
Tennessee Wildlife Federation is excited to announce that Governor Haslam has appointed Federation CEO Michael Butler to the TN H2O Steering Committee. This appointment is in addition to his recent...
Federation CEO Joins TVA Council
Tennessee Wildlife Federation is excited to announce that Michael Butler, chief executive officer, has been appointed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Regional Energy Resource Council. “Being...
Clark Akers and the Fight for the Obion River Basin
The following is a classic David and Goliath story, adapted from Dr. Marge Davis’ book Sportsmen United: The Story of the Tennessee Conservation League. It remains one of the greatest grassroots...
Tony Campbell: Conservation Starter
As the Tennessee Conservation League’s first employee—and the executive director of the organization for 23 years—Tony Campbell set the groundwork for what would become the Tennessee Wildlife...
Protecting the Hatchie Scenic River
Over the past ten years, economic development interests within the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) have conceived and begun to implement a plan to create a...
Birth Of The Tennessee Conservation League
Adapted from Dr. Marge Davis' "Sportsmen United: The History of the Tennessee Conservation League" The Tennessee Conservation League (now the Tennessee Wildlife Federation) was formed on...
Resisting Federal Overreach: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Proposed Ban on Tailwater Fishing
Sen. Lamar Alexander, with support from Tennessee Wildlife Federation CEO Mike Butler (left), spoke at a spring 2013 press conference related to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to restrict...
The Right to Hunt and Fish: An Amendment to the Tennessee Constitution
All the way back to Ancient Rome, democratic societies have recognized the individual right to hunt and fish. But during the Norman Conquest in England, a landowner could be put to death for hunting...
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